Insisting that it won’t happen because you feel like it shouldn’t happen
that didn’t happen here.
Insisting that it won’t happen because you feel like it shouldn’t happen
that didn’t happen here.
the same way that gas inexorably diffuses or water flows downhill.
no, those can be calculated and predicted. the same isn’t true for the rate at which political parties are created or dissolved.
First-past-the-post electoral systems inexorably develop into two-party systems because of the mechanism that he describes
this is the crux of duverger’s “law” which is not a law at all but actually a tautology.
if I vote for somebody who doesnt align with me I can’t win at all.
game theory assumes that we have rational actors acting in their own best interests. That’s not what people do. game theory doesn’t predict what people will do.
his charcterization isn’t scientific fact. it is opinion.
cgpgreys video does not say it’s the same as not voting
the video you linked called it strategic voting, and the real takeaway from that video is that strategic voting leads to voters having fewer choices and losing representation.
I would also accept a libertarian socialist. liberals aren’t leftists, though, and Democrats are liberal at best. some are much worse.
barrack “I’ll kill you at a wedding” Obama, barrack “I lied about closing gitmo” Obama, barrack "expand the surveillance state Obama is not going to tell me what to do.
this is also not evidence that Democrats even know where the left is.
when you get me a democrat that wants to close the prisons and the banks and end the institution of private property and the state, I will vote for them.
your accusation of bad faith is, itself, bad faith
If leftists are so numerous and their views so popular
they never made such a claim. in fact, all the evidence is that dems don’t care if leftists vote at all.
it is false now, and I don’t believe it’s honest to say he’s working with them now.
your capricious moderation will kill this community
i, too, nuked my bookworm install today after fiddling with Nvidia drivers. keeping /home on its own part is such a lifehack
it’s objectively false. it took you 50 words to do enough mental gymnastics to stick that landing. I can’t wait til .world dies.
it’s a single clause. it’s a simple sentence. and it’s false.
so the ban on misinformation isn’t an objective rule, just something capriciously moderated.
no, these people really have this position, and its ideologically consistent over the years.
the op already makes it clear that it’s discussing other people being Republican operatives. the comment to which you responded is spreading misinformation.
strategic voting consolidates parties. values voting is the only way to elect someone with your own values.